Hospital Birth Vs. Home Birth

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This podcast tells my personal story about our hospital birth of our twins contrasted to our home birth that we recently had. It begins with discussing hospital birth facts and statistics and then tells our story, then I go in to home birth stats and facts followed by our personal story. I’m not going to re-tell the stories here in the show notes, these are just some of the statistics that I cite in the episode. Please listen to the podcast if you haven’t yet to hear the stories about our tale of two births!

Home Birth Facts and Statistics

(The following are the results of a home birth study which is cited below)

Results

Among 16,924 women who planned home births at the onset of labor, 89.1% gave birth at home. The majority of intrapartum transfers were for failure to progress, and only 4.5% of the total sample required oxytocin augmentation and/or epidural analgesia. The rates of spontaneous vaginal birth, assisted vaginal birth, and cesarean were 93.6%, 1.2%, and 5.2%, respectively. Of the 1054 women who attempted a vaginal birth after cesarean, 87% were successful. Low Apgar scores (< 7) occurred in 1.5% of newborns. Postpartum maternal (1.5%) and neonatal (0.9%) transfers were infrequent. The majority (86%) of newborns were exclusively breastfeeding at 6 weeks of age. Excluding lethal anomalies, the intrapartum, early neonatal, and late neonatal mortality rates were 1.30, 0.41, and 0.35 per 1000, respectively.

The Birth Center Stats:

Becky (the owner of the Birth Center) - has attended 1000’s of births in her 28 years as a Certified Nurse Midwife and been the primary attending midwife at almost 1000 births.

Eve (our midwife from the Birth Center) - has been the primary midwife at over 350 births.

14% of Birth Center patients are tranrsferred to the hospital

5% end up having a C-section

16% are home births

40% are first-time mothers

They have never lost a baby at the Birth Center or at a home birth. They have had several babies born with previously undetected congenital issues who have been transferred to the hospital post-birth and they have had one baby who was transferred to the hospital (in 12 minutes) and the NICU cared for him for several weeks and he, unfortunately, passed away.

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